slaughterking
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Solid sell-throughs for everything.
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Media Create Sales: Week 34, 2012 (Aug 20 - Aug 28)
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electroplankton
Banned
Nice for all of them (at least those who have a precise figure). Do we know shipment numbers?
Nice ST for those games. They could see good numbers.
And Mario, yeah, certainly disappointing sales thus far. But people are right that we should wait and see how it fares around holiday time (dec-jan) to proclaim it a total failure. NSMB did a lot more than this and was released in May, a better period, and it had more time to sell almost 3.5m when it reached its first holiday.
Of course, maybe after five years we see it has sold well. I think my personal threshhold is somewhere between 3.25-3.75m.
And Mario, yeah, certainly disappointing sales thus far. But people are right that we should wait and see how it fares around holiday time (dec-jan) to proclaim it a total failure. NSMB did a lot more than this and was released in May, a better period, and it had more time to sell almost 3.5m when it reached its first holiday.
Of course, maybe after five years we see it has sold well. I think my personal threshhold is somewhere between 3.25-3.75m.
electroplankton
Banned
FFX HD in 2015.
Nope, until the end of the year there are 2 or 3 games with a chance of selling >50k LTD and that's all.
The announced line up is awful and the system will get even more drowned with all the PS3/3DS/WiiU releases. Sony better have some unannounced games ready for the end of the year.
BishopLamont
Banned
If they did, it'd already have been announced. Sony is not Nintendo, they like to hype their releases way before its anywhere ready.
Look at Soul Sacrifice, its Vita's biggest hope and thats most likely a 2013 release. Forget 2012.
Its not uncommon for 3rd parties to unveil projects in September and release them before the year is out.
test_account
XP-39C²
How so? I havnt seen anything that indicates at 2013 release.
Moor-Angol
Banned
Y's (porting?), 27 Sep.
Totori no Atelier porting, 29 Nov.
Fate/Stay Night (porting?), 29 Nov.
AKB1/53, 20 Dec.
electroplankton
Banned
AKB is a PSP/Vita release, though.
My Nintendo is also not your Nintendo either, I guess, because we are still waiting for games announced at E3 2010.
Y'S is a new game, there's nothing about port on it. Falcom developed it themselves, they never touched Ys IV before.
Yeah, the best argument about there not being more Vita announcements for this year is that Sony has been pathetic as opposed to the timing.
electroplankton
Banned
The fact is that Vita's situation in Japan (and also worldwide) should have change the common strategy to announce games just a few months before the actual release.
I agree, and I am skeptical there is anything really substantial coming, but it is absolutely possible. Hell Nintendo still hasn't unveiled the Wii U in Japan!
electroplankton
Banned
Indeed, and Wii U is struggling in Japan even more, with 0 units sold in the past months!
With TGS coming soon, i am very anxious in seeing what Nintendo and Sony are going to bring.
Nintendo on one hand, does not need to be as aggressive as last year, showing the most epic game reel i have ever seen in my life. This year they can take it at a more leisurely pace, without stopping the agressive market takeover.
Sony on the other hand, well, we all just expect things, and i just wonder what they can offer.
I also cannot wait until Wii U's september conference. I wonder what kind of japanese support they will announce. Maybe it being held in NY is not a good sign that they will show much of that, maybe they will show the exclusively japanese support at TGS (likely).
Man, Nintendo should have its own country, where localization and such things will never matter... and no region locking!
Nintendo on one hand, does not need to be as aggressive as last year, showing the most epic game reel i have ever seen in my life. This year they can take it at a more leisurely pace, without stopping the agressive market takeover.
Sony on the other hand, well, we all just expect things, and i just wonder what they can offer.
I also cannot wait until Wii U's september conference. I wonder what kind of japanese support they will announce. Maybe it being held in NY is not a good sign that they will show much of that, maybe they will show the exclusively japanese support at TGS (likely).
Man, Nintendo should have its own country, where localization and such things will never matter... and no region locking!
From Iwata's tweet from the other day, it doesn't look like there is going to be a September conference in Japan, at least for revealing Wii U. I expect a Nintendo Direct and sporadic 3rd party reveals throughout the month leading up to TGS.
No Japanese announcements at the NY conference confirmed.
I don't think Japanese conference will be only for Wii U. It will get lion's share but 3DS should also be covered, Nintendo hasn't revealed yet every title for this year and that's the place for them to do it.
From the translations of Iwata's tweet I'm not completely convinced there will even be an actual conference.
Sammy Samusu
Member
What if Nintendo attends TGS. 
What if Nintendo attends TGS.
THAT would be the real signal Mayas were right.
Interesting (=fun) idea.What if Nintendo attends TGS.
electroplankton
Banned
Do you think there will be a conference for 3DS comparable to the one Nintendo held last September? Or at least comparable announcements?
nothing's gonna ever compare to mh4 though
electroplankton
Banned
Got it. Yeah, I know last year they also talked about Wii (Zelda, line-up for 2012) but they mainly covered 3DS games along with new announcements, and it was quite epic tbh.
Sammy Samusu
Member
I say Nintendo World 2012 in early October.
KillerMan91
Member
Thought it was interesting that, despite the different situations, the PS3 software is selling about the same as the PSP, while the Wii software was selling about the same as the GBA (the 3DS so far is basically the same as the GBA).
DS needs Pokemon Black 3 / White 3:
Within the year.
Damn. I always thought that even DS SW sales surpassed PS2 a long time ago as it went so far ahead in HW sales in Japan. PS2 really was software monster. Does it have software record in Japan or did SNES or PS1 move even more SW?
electroplankton
Banned
DS had more million sellers (and some +5 million sellers, one +6 million seller, and many +2.5 million sellers): 35, while PS2 had just 17. But PS2 sold a lot of software between 200k and one million. So I guess PS2 tail is longer and thicker, while DS had more concentration in the highest selling games.
slackboy72
Banned
5th best game can't crack 20,000.
Disappointing personified.
On a side note I know that it's common for Japanese to get paid monthly instead of fortnightly. Does this show up in the data? i.e. one good week then three slow weeks?
Disappointing personified.
On a side note I know that it's common for Japanese to get paid monthly instead of fortnightly. Does this show up in the data? i.e. one good week then three slow weeks?
SCEJ?
They ran a bunch of promotional videos on their Youtube channel and website talking about the game for weeks now. It was fairly in-depth. Only time I've seen them do stuff like that is for their own stuff, as well as Miku.
Well, the 3DS was the successor to Japan's best selling platform in a nation that was desperately wanting a new platform to boost the market.
A conference happening is feasible, but I'm not expecting heavy pan industry support with titles on par with an exclusive Monster Hunter 4.
Edit:
I can't read and somehow thought this was for Wii U. I do expect good 3DS announcements out of TGS as the platform has been proven for a year while basically every other platform is dying off and/or unproven.
And there haven't been any signs for 2012 either. Would be very surprised if SS makes it out before end of this year.
test_account
XP-39C²
It is still slated for 2012 from what i know, and there have been a few updates here and there. I have no idea if the game will make it within 2012, but BishopLamont seemed very confident that it wasnt coming out in 2012, so i was wondering what he based this on.
test_account
XP-39C²
Not sure if winter 2012 or just "this winter" was mentioned. I hope they dont rush it for 2012 at least, better to wait until early 2013 then.
They might do what they did with the 3DS and hire out a convention hall to show off games, with it being open to the public.
There's no metric by which we can evenly compare all systems.
NES is the highest from Nintendo, with 226 million copies shipped to Japan.
PS1 had 286 million copies produced for Asia until March 2007.
PS2 had 228 million copies produced for Asia until March 2007 (i.e. still missing some years).
